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Article: Sexuality in China today.(Sex and Sexuality in China)(Book review)
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- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
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Sex and Sexuality in China. Edited by Elaine Jeffreys. London and New York: Routledge, 2006, 184 pages. Hardcover, $120.00.
Reviewed by Fang-fu Ruan, Ph.D., Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, 1523 Franklin St., San Francisco, CA 94109. E-mail: ruanff@yahoo.com.
The academic and systematic research of Chinese sexuality has a relatively short history, starting with the famous sinologist R. H. van Gulick (1910-1967). In Japan in 1951, he published a rare collection: Erotic Colour Prints of the Ming Period, With an Essay on Chinese Sex Life From the Han to the Ch'ing Dynasty, BC 206-AD 1644. Despite the fact that only 50 copies of the book were ...